Applying Ratings to Images


In Lesson 3, you learned how to apply five-star ratings to define images as "selects." Aperture offers many other ratings, however, from 0 to 5 stars. In a larger project, ratingslike keywordsare an essential organizational tool because they can help you quickly find alternates if a client rejects your initial recommendations. Let's explore those ratings now.

1.

Press Command-Option-S to switch to Basic layout. Make sure that all stacks are open (Option-') so that you can see all of your images.

You can rate as many or as few images as you want, and we will be leaving some images unrated. We know for sure that we want to rate our picks with the highest possible rating, and give alternate images a slightly lower rating. This will allow us to easily filter out our picks and quickly turn to alternate images if we need them.

2.

Choose View > Metadata Overlays and be certain that Viewer is checked. This will ensure that you can see the ratings superimposed over the images in the Viewer.

3.

Select the first image in the Browser. This image is a pick, so give it a five-star rating.

4.

Press the 5 key to tag the image with five stars. The five stars appear in the lower left corner of the image.

5.

Press the right arrow key to move to the next image. This is our second-choice alternate, so we want to give it a rating of four stars.

6.

Choose Metadata > 4 Stars or press 4 to give this image a four-star rating.

7.

Press the right arrow to go to the next image.

8.

Choose Metadata > 3 Stars or press 3 to give this image a three-star rating.

How far to take your ratings is up to you. The more metadata you applyincluding star ratings and keywordsthe more information you have to search and filter your images at any time.

9.

Continue to rate the rest of the images in this stack if you'd like.

Assigning a Reject Rating

In addition to assigning a rating of 1 to 5 stars, you can also assign a Reject rating. This allows you to easily filter images that you know you won't want to use. You can, of course, leave unwanted images unrated, but you can't base queries on unrated images. Consequently, there's no way to filter unrated images out of a selection, as you can with images with a Reject rating.

1.

Navigate to and select the following image:

Because it's a little soft, this image isn't very good. We could delete it by pressing Command-Delete, but that's a little radical. We might find a use for it some day.

2.

Press the 9 key to assign a Reject rating. Later, if we want, we can filter out the rejected images. The image in the Viewer now shows a Reject rating.

Changing a Rating

As you continue to rate your images, you may find that you want to go back and change your ratings. Sometimes you'll want to change a rating simply because you change your mind about a particular image. At other times, you may change your mind about your whole scale of comparison and will want to apply a relative adjustment to a range of imagesdowngrading all of your images, for example, because you've found a new hero image. Aperture provides simple controls for making either absolute or relative rating changes.

1.

Navigate to the following stack:

2.

Select the first image and give it a rating of five stars.

3.

Select the second through fourth images and then press 4 to give them all a four-star rating. Because the Primary Only mode is off, the rating is applied to all three images.

4.

With the images still selected, press the key or click the red downward-pointing arrow in the control bar. Aperture removes one star from each rating.

5.

Press the + key or click the upward-pointing red arrow in the control bar. Aperture increases the rating by one star.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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